Voting method

Sweden, Vallag (2005:837) (The Elections Act), last amended in 2026, accessed 21 October 2026

The different ways of voting

Section 1: Voting takes place at vote reception points. Voters shall vote in the first instance at their polling stations on the election day. They can also vote prior to or during the election day at voting places set up by the municipalities or foreign missions. Voters may also in certain cases give their votes to specially appointed voting clerks (mobile voting clerks) or vote by messenger or letter.

Voting by messenger

Section 4: Voters who, owing to illness, impairment or old age, cannot personally make their way to a vote reception point may deliver their ballot papers there by messenger.

Section 6: For general elections to the Riksdag and to municipal and county council assemblies and elections to the European Parliament, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 24 days prior to the election day.

For other elections, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 10 days prior to the election day. However, a vote by messenger that is delivered at a foreign mission may in these cases be arranged no earlier than 20 days prior to the election day.

Postal voting

Section 11: Voters who are staying abroad or on board a vessel in foreign traffic may vote by letter.